Benjamin Swinburne is Executive Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Strategy for The Walt Disney Company. In this role, Swinburne leads Disney’s investor relations function, communicating the company’s financial performance and long‑term strategic vision to institutional investors and retail shareholders, sell-side analysts, and key stakeholders. Overseeing corporate strategy, he oversees the company’s long-term strategic planning and market analysis, identifying growth opportunities based on industry trends and evolving entertainment consumption.
Previously, Swinburne served as Managing Director and Head of U.S. Media Research at Morgan Stanley. He led the company’s equity research coverage of the media and entertainment, advertising, and telecom and cable services industries — areas he has followed for over two decades. He has consistently ranked among the leading analysts in multiple sectors in a variety of investor polls, including a 2021 induction into the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team Hall of Fame. He joined Morgan Stanley as a research analyst in 1999.
Swinburne holds a Bachelor of Arts in public policy with a concentration in finance from Washington & Lee University and a Master of Science in accounting from Babson College.